COT reports: Short positions held by all reporting traders in silver futures: SILVER - COMMODITY EXCHANGE INC. (number of contracts) - United States - CFTC - Weekly
This series is part of the dataset: Silver futures COT reports (CFTC)
Download Full Dataset (.xlsx)Latest updates. According to the Commitments of Traders (COT) reports published by the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC), short positions held by all reporting traders in silver futures of the kind "SILVER - COMMODITY EXCHANGE INC." were 96,033 contracts on 15 September 2026, compared to 95,885 on 8 September.
Sample. In this weekly time series, there are 1,058 records in total. The series covers the time period stretching from June 2006 to September 2026.
History. Check out some summary statistics we calculated on the whole sample: positions had a mean value of 139,326 contracts; they reached a trough of 74,153 on 2 December 2008; they attained a maximum of 230,187 on 6 August 2019.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2026-09-01 | 96,446.0 |
| 2026-09-08 | 95,885.0 |
| 2026-09-15 | 96,033.0 |
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Series Metadata
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Description | Short positions held by all reporting traders in silver futures |
| Country | United States |
| Economic concept | Stock |
| Data type | Quantity |
| Seasonally adjusted | No |
| Deflation method | Not applicable |
| Rescaling | None |
| Measure type | Level |
| Frequency | Weekly |
| Unit | Number of contracts |
| Source | Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) |
| Source type | Government agency |
| Data licence | Public domain information |
| Other information | Specific future: "SILVER - COMMODITY EXCHANGE INC. |
| FSR temporal aggregation code | LW1 |
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